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Abstract Background Teaching is very stressful and demanding and it intensifies psychological and related disorders compared to other occupations. Most teachers in Nigeria are battling emotional distress, burnout, depression, and anxiety due to excess workload, which has affected their psychological well-being. This study assessed the sociodemographic and psychological well-being of primary school teachers in Enugu State, Nigeria. Methods This is a study with a cross-sectional design. The psychological well-being of 254 primary school teachers was assessed using a psychological well-being scale and a sociodemographic information inventory was also used to ascertain their personal information. The data collected were analyzed using chi-square, mean, standard deviation, and bivariate correlation statistics. Results The results showed that the majority of primary school teachers experience unhealthy psychological well-being irrespective of age, gender, working status, qualification, and years of teaching experience. These teachers' sociodemographic variables are significantly correlated with psychological well-being. Only location is not significantly correlated with psychological well-being. Conclusion Therefore, this study concluded that primary school teachers' psychological well-being is not positive or healthy and is significantly related to their sociodemographic characteristics.
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Objective:To survey the working status of outpatient nurses in general practice departments of general hospitals.Methods:From March to April 2021, personal in-depth interviews were conducted with outpatient nurses from general practice residency training bases in Beijing. The thematic framework analysis method was used to analyze the interview data and refine the themes.Results:Fourteen nurses working in general practice outpatient clinics were interviewed in this study. Four themes were extracted from the interview data: (1) inadequate staffing of full-time outpatient nurses in general practice departments of comprehensive hospitals; (2) unclear job functions for outpatient nurses in general practice departments; (3) no standardized patient health education in the department; (4) no relevant training received systematically.Conclusion:General practice departments in general hospitals should setup full-time general practice nurse positions, clarify the job responsibilities, strengthen the relevant training and enhance core competency for nurses working in general practice department.
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Objective To investigation the present situation of full‐time bachelor and upgraded clinical nurses ,in order to provide effective basis for the reasonable nursing hierarchical management and job arrangement .Methods Using cluster sampling method ,the working status of clinical nurses self‐designed questionnaire survey for 566 clinical nurses from 13 three level of first‐class hospitals of Nanning city were investigated by self‐designed questionnaire survey .Results The total score of full‐time bache‐lor and upgraded clinical nurses working status showed low satisfaction;the total score of working status of the upgraded nurse was higher than full‐time bachelor nurses .The upgraded clinical nurse in 4 dimensions of welfare treatment ,nursing working character‐istics and identity ,the work to be recognized ,interpersonal relationship scored higher than full‐time bachelor nurse(P0 .05) .Conclusion The overall performance of working statute of full‐time bachelor nurses is worse than upgraded nurses ,and some aspects including the occupation identification need to be further strengthened .The nursing managers need to increase the nursing hierarchical using of strength ,promote the rationalization process of job responsibility and arrangement of the high degree of clinical nurses ,in order to reduce the flow loss rate .
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Trabalho originado de um projeto piloto de capacitação profissional ou semi-profissionalizante desenvolvido nos anos de 2001 e 2002 com onze usuários de serviços de saúde do Estado de São Paulo: pessoas atingidas pela hanseníase e comunicantes. No processo de seleção dos sujeitos realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa para verificar as alterações ocorridas na situação de trabalho após o diagnóstico de hanseníase. Como instrumentos foram utilizados um formulário e a história de vida tópica.A análise dos dados apontou as categorias: qualidade de vida; percepções e representações sobre a doença; situação social desencadeada a partir do diagnóstico; hanseníase e relação de trabalho; hanseníase e sistema de saúde. Resultados apontam: que a mentira e a omissão da doença são percebidas como necessárias à obtenção e/ou manutenção do emprego, uma vez que o preconceito, a discriminação e o isolamento em função do estigma ainda persistem; o aumento da auto-estima dos sujeitos com o curso de capacitação realizado; relatos de profissionais da área da saúde ainda despreparados em relação à hanseníase.Como propostas são apontadas: intensificação de campanhas à população; realização de pesquisa para compreensão do percurso do usuário até a unidade de saúde e o diagnóstico de hanseníase; educação continuada dos profissionais da rede; inclusão do tema nos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação dos futuros profissionais da área da saúde; e expansão dos cursos de capacitação a usuários de outras unidades do Estado de São Paulo.
This work began with a pilot project for professional empowerment or semi-professionalizing courses developed between 2001 and 2002, with eleven users of the health services of the State of São Paulo. These users were people with leprosy and his contacts. After the subjects selection, a qualitative research was performed during which the researchers tried to rescue the life history and the working status of those users, seeking to establish the changes occurred after the leprosy diagnosis, specially at work. The used tools were a form and the topic life history. The data analysis showed following categories: life quality; perceptions and representations about the disease; social condition changes due to the diagnosis; leprosy and working relations; and leprosy and the health system. Among other aspects, it was noted that: the users think that lying or omitting the disease is necessary in order to get or to keep a job, since prejudice, discrimination and isolation resulting from the stigma still exist; also noted was the great benefit the subjects had when they enhanced their self-esteem thanks to the provided empowerment course. On the other side, the reports showed that most professionals of the health area are still unprepared to identify and diagnose leprosy patients. The suggested proposals are: to intensify the clarification campaigns for the population; to make a research in order to understand the users route to the health unit and the leprosy diagnosis; the continued education of the health systems professionals; to intensify the training during the regular courses and post-doctoral courses of the future health professionals about how to suspect, diagnose and treat leprosy; and to outreach the empowerment courses to other units in the State of São Paulo.